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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!darwin.sura.net!haven.umd.edu!uunet!mcsun!Germany.EU.net!rz.uni-hildesheim.de!agsc!rubikon.han.de!toad From: toad@rubikon.han.de (Peter Cleve) Subject: Re: backup w/ compression for UN*X? References: <1992Sep3.165702.3809@gateway.novell.com> <1992Sep4.085828.10853@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg> <1992Sep06.104350.2659@rubikon.han.de> <BRTMAC.92Sep6140131@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu> Organization: Rubikon Rethen BRD Date: Mon, 07 Sep 92 11:10:18 GMT Message-ID: <1992Sep07.111018.6747@rubikon.han.de> Lines: 15 In <BRTMAC.92Sep6140131@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu> brtmac@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu (Brett McCoy) writes: >Also, if a disk in the middle of the dump is bad there is no way to >get the data from the disks following the bad one because you can't >start reading a compressed file in the middle. This problem solved by compact too, compact writes the information who is need to keep the compressed Datastream in "sync" every n bytes to the compressed data-stream. By -- Peter Cleve, Hildesheimer Str. 316, 3014 Laatzen 3, Tel. 05102/1854 (Voice) Energiesparen ist das moralische Aequivalent zum Krieg. (Jimmy Carter)